"Molecular Plant Immunity provides an integrated look at both well-established and emerging concepts in plant disease resistance providing the most current information on this important vitally important topic within plant biology. Understanding the molecular basis of the plant immune system has implications on the development of new varieties of sustainable crops, understanding the challenges plant life will face in changing environments, as well as providing a window into immune function that could have translational appeal to human medicine. Molecular Plant Immunity opens with chapters reviewing how the first line of plant immune response is activated followed by chapters looking at the molecular mechanisms that allow fungi, bacteria, and oomycetes to circumvent those defenses. Plant resistance proteins, which provide the second line of plant immune defense, are then covered followed by chapters on the role of hormones in immunity and the mechanisms that modulate specific interaction between plants and viruses. The final chapters look at model plant-pathogen systems to review interaction between plants and fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens. Written by a leading team of international experts, Molecular Plant Immunity will provide a needed resource to diverse research community investigated plant immunity"-- Provided by publisher.

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1. The rice Xa21 immune receptor recognizes a novel bacterial quorum sensing factor / Cheng Jin Park and Pamela C. Ronald -- Introduction -- Plants and animal immune systems -- A plethora of immune receptors recognize conserved microbial signatures -- Ax21 conserved molecular signature -- Non-RD receptor kinase Xa21 -- XA21-mediated signaling components -- Cleavage and nuclear localization of the rice XA21 immune receptor -- Regulation in the endoplasmic reticulum: quality control of XA21 -- Systems biology of the innate immune response -- 2. Molecular basis of effector recognition by plant NB-LRR proteins / Lisong Ma, Harrold A. van den Burg, Ben J.C. Cornelissen and Frank L.W. Takken -- Introduction -- Building blocks of NB-LRRs: classification and structural features of subdomains -- Putting the parts together: combining the domains to build a signaling competent NB-LRR protein -- Stabilization and accumulation of NB-LRR proteins: their maturation and stabilization -- When the pathogen attacks: perception and signaling by NB-LRR proteins -- Conclusion -- 3. Signal transduction pathways activated by R proteins / Gitta Coaker and Douglas Baker -- Introduction -- R protein stability -- Genetic separation of CC and TIR-NB-LRR signaling -- NB-LRRs exhibit modular structure and function -- Subcellular localization of NB-LRRs -- NB-LRRs can function in pairs -- Common immune signaling events downstream of R protein activation -- Conclusion -- 4. The roles of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid in plant immunity / Pradeep Kachroo and Aardra Kachroo -- Introduction -- Biosynthesis of SA -- Derivatives of SA -- SA and systemic acquired resistance -- SA signaling pathway -- Jasmonates mediate plant immunity -- JA biosynthetic mutants are altered in microbial defense -- Receptor protein complex perceives JA -- Transcription factors regulate JA-derived signaling -- JA regulates defense gene expression -- Conclusion -- 5. Effectors of bacterial pathogens: modes of action and plant targets / Feng Feng and Jian-Min Zhou -- Introduction -- Overview of plant innate immunity -- Overview of type III effectors -- Host targets and biochemical functions -- Conclusion -- 6. The roles of transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors in virulence and avirulence of Xanthomonas / Aaron W. Hummel and Adam J. Bogdanove -- Introduction -- TAL effectors are delivered into and may dimerize in the host cell -- TAL effectors function in the plant cell nucleus -- AvrBs4 is recognized in the plant cell cytoplasm -- TAL effectors activate host gene expression -- Central repeat region of TAL effectors determines DNA binding specificity -- TAL effectors wrap around DNA in a right-handed superhelix -- TAL effector targets include different susceptibility and candidate susceptibility genes -- MtN3 gene family is targeted by multiple TAL effectors -- Promoter polymorphisms prevent S gene activation to provide disease resistance -- Nature of the rice bacterial blight resistance gene xa5 suggests TAL effector interaction with plant transcriptional machinery -- Executor R genes exploit TAL effector activity for resistance -- Diversity of TAL effectors in Xanthomonas populations is largely unexplored -- TAL effectors are useful tools for DNA targeting -- Conclusion -- 7. Effectors of fungi and oomycetes: their virulence and avirulence functions, and translocation from pathogen to host cells / Brett M. Tyler and Thierry Rouxel -- Introduction -- Plant-associated fungi and oomycetes -- Identification of fungal and oomycete effectors -- Defensive effectors: effectors that interfere with plant immunity -- Offensive effectors: effectors that debilitate plant tissue -- Effectors that contribute to fitness via unknown mechanisms -- Entry of intracellular effectors -- Genome location and consequences for adaptation/dispensability -- Conclusion -- 8. Plant-virus interaction: defense and counter-defense / Amy Wahba Foreman, Gail J. Pruss and Vicki Vance -- Introduction -- RNA silencing as an antiviral defense pathway: the beginning of the story -- Small regulatory RNA biogenesis and function -- The silencing mafia: the protein families -- Defense: anti-viral RNA silencing pathways -- Counter-defense: viral suppressors of silencing and their targets -- Viral suppressors of silencing and endogenous small regulatory RNA pathways -- 9. Molecular mechanisms involved in the interaction between tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato / André C. Velásquez and Gregory B. Martin -- Introduction -- PAMP-triggered immunity in Solanaceae -- Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato virulence mechanisms -- Effector-triggered immunity in Solanaceae -- Races of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato -- ETI is involved in non-host resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pathovars -- ETI signaling pathways in the Solanaceae -- Conclusion -- 10. Cladosporium fulvum-tomato pathosystem: fungal infection strategy and plant responses / Bilal Ökmen and Pierre J.G.M. de Wit -- Introduction -- History of the interaction between C. fulvum and tomato -- Compatible and incompatible interactions -- Cf-mediated downstream signaling -- Effectors in other fungi with similar infection strategies -- Conclusion -- 11. Cucumber mosaic virus-Arabidopsis interaction: Interplay of virulence strategies and plant responses / Jack H. Westwood and John P. Carr -- Introduction -- Biology of CMV -- Host resistance responses to virus infection -- Targeting of host factors by the virus -- Phenomenon of cross-protection -- Functions of SA in antiviral defense -- Metabolic responses to CMV infection -- Vector-mediated transmission -- Conclusion -- 12. Future prospects for genetically engineering disease-resistant plants / Yan-Jun Chen, Michael F. Lyngkjær and David B. Collinge -- Introduction -- Targets for second generation transgenic strategies for resistance -- Hormones -- Defense modulation -- Transcription factors -- Promoters for transgenic disease resistance -- Implementation of transgenic resistance in the field -- Why choose a transgenic approach? -- Conclusion.

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